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3 Sep 2015, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Catholic Bishop of Chicago ... which held that Congress did not intend to bring teachers at church-operated schools within the  jurisdiction of the Act. [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 8:53 am by Jeremy Telman
According to this report in the Chicago Sun Times, The Chicago Teachers' Union (CTU) is calling "strikeworthy" a proposal by Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Forrest Claypool that teachers pay their full pension contributions. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 10:57 am by Staley Smith, Quinta Jurecic
Check out this handy explainer from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business for the basics. [read post]
4 May 2015, 10:03 am by Stephen D. Rosenberg
Mike Reilly’s post was on governmental plan exemptions in just this type of a context, where the role of collective bargaining, a teacher’s union, and a school district overlap in a manner that impacts determining whether the plan in question is a governmental plan. [read post]
26 Apr 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [Ann Althouse] Testing issue allows teachersunions to make friends on the conservative side [NYT via same] Legal costs exceed $100 per student at some Chicago-area public schools; $23 billed for one lawyer’s phone message [Tribune via ABA Journal] Maintenance of Effort laws, meant to insulate school budgets against local voter control, might backfire [Free State Notes post by me, channeling my letter to the editor] A dissent on liberalizing school… [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 7:34 am by Jim Sedor
Firms on Edge about Hacking Threat” by Elise Viebeck for The Hill “Lobbyist Spending Is Concentrated at the Top” by Ian Lind for Honolulu Civil Beat “CSKT Accused of Unethical Lobbying” by Tristan Scott for Flathead Beacon “Governor Signs Measure on Lobbyist Records” by Dan Boyd for Albuquerque Journal Campaign Finance “California Teachers Unions Face New Legal Challenge over Dues” by Emma Brown for Washington Post… [read post]
27 Feb 2015, 6:37 am by Joe May
Those efforts figure to weaken the lobbying efforts by cities, hamstring the power of teachers unions, limit how academics can speak out on public controversies, and mold a more conservative judiciary. [read post]
1 Jan 2015, 4:01 pm by Kirk Jenkins
 Board of Education presents the following issue: did the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board err in finding that the Chicago Board of Education was guilty of an unfair labor practice when it refused to arbitrate the Chicago Teachers Union’s grievances over the Board’s practice of placing “Do Not Hire” designations in the personnel filed of certain non-renewed probationary appointed teachers? [read post]
30 Nov 2014, 4:39 am by Jon Gelman
At the Walmart in North Bergen, N.J., several hundred union members and others protested, including Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, whose placard said, “Walmart: Breaking the Promise of America. [read post]
29 Nov 2014, 8:10 am by Walter Olson
Substitute-teaching for one day triggered entitlement to a tax-funded pension worth nearly $1 million for a pair of Illinois teacher’s union lobbyists [Adam Andrzejewski, Forbes, citing 2011 Chicago Tribune investigation] Tweet Tags: Illinois, public employment, schoolsThe Illinois way in public employment is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
14 Sep 2014, 5:09 pm by Joy Waltemath
Circuit has reached a different result — concluding that a union must provide specific reduced-payment information to all employees when it initially notifies them of their obligations under a union-security clause — the Board concluded that the appeals court’s rationale was based on an erroneous reading of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Chicago Teachers Union, Local 1 v. [read post]
7 Sep 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
“State of unions: Illinois’ big unionized workforce has become a big campaign issue” [Peoria Journal Star] Teachersunion top priority: unseat GOP governors [Politico] In which I’m quoted saying relatively favorable things about left-leaning New York gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout (though “enjoyed interacting with” is a long way from “would consider voting for”) [Capital New York] Meet the… [read post]
25 Aug 2014, 2:44 pm by Sital Kalantry
” In advance of last week’s review, the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, the Chicago Teachers Union, the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago, the Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education, and Blocks Together (BT) jointly submitted a “shadow” report to the Committee. [read post]
28 May 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
California voters thought they’d reined in don’t-hurry-on-English “bilingual” instruction methods, but legislators have other ideas [Steven Greenhut, San Diego Union-Tribune] “Report: Too Much Regulation Is Hurting Scientists” [Inside Higher Ed via Instapundit; two earlier federal surveys "found principal investigators spend 42 percent of their time on administrative tasks"] This should end well: Mayor de Blasio hands keys to NYC school… [read post]